Vivaldi: The Four Seasons

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Everything's done with great care, buoyancy and tastefulness, but that very tastefulness can be over-respectful...Better is the joyously incisive account of the four-violin concerto Bach reworked... — BBC Music Magazine, Awards Issue 2015, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 2nd Mar 2015
Catalogue No: BIS2103
Label: BIS
Length: 67 minutes

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Vivaldi: The Four Seasons: Spring, RV269

Work length9:39

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Richard Tognetti
Australian Chamber Orchestra
Recorded: March 2014
Recording Venue: The Concourse Chatswood Concert Hall, Sydney, Australia

I. Allegro

Track length3:19

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II. Largo

Track length2:19

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III. Danza pastorale. Allegro

Track length4:01

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Vivaldi: The Four Seasons: Summer, RV315

Work length10:36

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Richard Tognetti
Australian Chamber Orchestra
Recorded: March 2014
Recording Venue: The Concourse Chatswood Concert Hall, Sydney, Australia

I. Allegro non moto

Track length5:18

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II. Adagio - Presto

Track length2:29

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III. Presto

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Vivaldi: The Four Seasons: Autumn, RV293

Work length11:34

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Richard Tognetti
Australian Chamber Orchestra
Recorded: March 2014
Recording Venue: The Concourse Chatswood Concert Hall, Sydney, Australia

I. Allegro

Track length4:56

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II. Adagio molto

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III. Allegro

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Vivaldi: The Four Seasons: Winter, RV297

Work length8:30

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Richard Tognetti
Australian Chamber Orchestra
Recorded: March 2014
Recording Venue: The Concourse Chatswood Concert Hall, Sydney, Australia

I. Allegro non molto

Track length3:24

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II. Largo

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III. Allegro

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Excerpt, Vivaldi: Violin Concerto in D major, RV 226

Work length1:39

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Richard Tognetti
Australian Chamber Orchestra
Recorded: March 2014
Recording Venue: The Concourse Chatswood Concert Hall, Sydney, Australia

II. Largo

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Vivaldi: Concerto, Op. 3 No. 10 'Con quattro Violini e Violoncello obligato', RV 580

Work length9:22

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Richard Tognetti, Helena Rathbone, Satu Vänskä, Ike See, Timo-Veikko Valve
Australian Chamber Orchestra
Recorded: March 2014
Recording Venue: The Concourse Chatswood Concert Hall, Sydney, Australia

I. Allegro

Track length3:37

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II. Largo

Track length2:19

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III. Allegro

Track length3:26

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Vivaldi: Concerto, Op. 3 No. 6 'Con Violino Solo obligato', RV 356

Work length7:32

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Richard Tognetti
Australian Chamber Orchestra
Recorded: March 2014
Recording Venue: The Concourse Chatswood Concert Hall, Sydney, Australia

I. Allegro

Track length2:54

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II. Largo

Track length2:12

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III. Presto

Track length2:26

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Vivaldi: Concerto grosso in D Major, RV 562 "Per la solennità di San Lorenzo"

Work length3:19

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Richard Tognetti
Australian Chamber Orchestra
Recorded: March 2014
Recording Venue: The Concourse Chatswood Concert Hall, Sydney, Australia

II. Grave

Track length3:19

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Vivaldi: La verità in cimento RV 739: Sinfonia

Work length4:37

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Richard Tognetti
Australian Chamber Orchestra
Recorded: March 2014
Recording Venue: The Concourse Chatswood Concert Hall, Sydney, Australia

I. Allegro

Track length1:40

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II. Andante

Track length2:06

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III. Presto

Track length0:51

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In celebration of the ACO's 40th birthday in 2015 BIS announce the release of a new recording of Vivaldi's iconic Four Seasons, conducted by Artistic Director Richard Tognetti.

In 1725 Il cimento dell’armonia e dell’inventione (‘The Contest of Harmony and Invention’) would secure Antonio Vivaldi’s reputation for eternity. The first four concertos of this collection form what has become one of the most widely spread classical compositions in the history of music: Le Quattro Stagioni. Now Richard Tognetti and the Australian Chamber Orchestra, a team internationally recognized for its virtuosity, energy and individuality, has recorded their take on Vivaldi’s springtime birdsong, summer thunderstorm, autumn hunting and chattering teeth of icy winter. The programme also includes two typically Vivaldian slow movements, a Largo and a Grave, as well as a Sinfonia for strings originally intended as the overture of the opera La verità in cimento (‘Truth in contention’).

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Awards Issue 2015

Everything's done with great care, buoyancy and tastefulness, but that very tastefulness can be over-respectful...Better is the joyously incisive account of the four-violin concerto Bach reworked as a dazzling showcase for four harpsichords, while best of all is the first movement of the Sinfonia to La verita in cimento which crackles with the elemental force of a forest fire.

May 2015

although this isn't a live recording, what you do get is all the excitement and spontaneity of a live performance - along with the ACO's trademark visceral approach to early music…there is some exceptional playing here.

7th March 2015

It is sufficiently respectful of Baroque sensibilities as to appeal to those who might shy away from too much animal scene-setting and yet has enough meteorological definition to convey the fact that Vivaldi was not just writing four concertos but was trying to capture images of spring, summer, autumn and winter within them.

Classical Music May 2015

Stylish, lithe playing from Tognetti and his vividly alert players: Summer has never felt sunnier.

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